Nursing Research Generating and Assessing
Evidence for Nursing Practice 11th Edition
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Nursing Research Generating and Assessing
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Evidence for Nursing Practice 11th Edition
Polit Beck Test Bank
Chapter 1 Introduction to Nursing Research in an Evidence-Based Practice Environment
1.
What is the highest priority for the
importance of research in the nursing
profession?
A) Research findings provide evidence for
informing nurses' decisions and actions.
B) Conduct research to better understand the
context of nursing practice.
C) Document the role that nurses serve in
society.
D) Establish nursing research areas of study.
2. Which group would be best served by
clinical nursing research?
A) Nursing administrators
B) Practicing nurses
C) Nurses' clients
D) Healthcare policymakers
3. In the United States, in what area does
research play an important role in nursing?
A) Chronic illness
B) Credentialing and status
C) Nurses' personalities
D) Nurses' education
4. What is the role of a consumer of nursing
research?
A) Read research reports for relevant
findings.
B) Participate in generating evidence by
doing research.
C) Participate in journal club in a practice
setting.
D) Solve clinical problems and make clinical
decisions.
5. What was the concern of most nursing
studies in the early 1900s?
A) Client satisfaction
B) Clinical problems
C) Health promotion
D) Nursing education
6.
Which topic most closely conforms to the
priorities that have been suggested for
future nursing research?
A) Attitudes of nursing students toward
smoking.
B) Promotion of excellence in nursing
science.
C) Nursing staff morale and turnover.
D) Number of doctorate prepared nurses in
various clinical specialties.
7. What is the process of deductive
reasoning?
A) Verifying assumptions that are part of our
heritage.
B) Developing specific predictions from
general principles.
C) Empirically testing observations that are
made known through our senses.
D) Forming generalizations from specific
observations.
8. What is the ontological assumption of
those espousing
a naturalistic paradigm?
A) Objective reality and those natural
phenomena are regular and orderly.
B) Phenomena are not haphazard and result
from prior causes.
C) Reality is multiply constructed and
multiply interpreted by humans.
D) Reality is not fixed, but is rather
a
construction of human minds.
9. What is the epistemological assumption of
those espousing a positivist paradigm?
A) The researcher is objective and
independent of those being studied.
B) Phenomena are not haphazard, but rather
have antecedent causes.
C)
The researcher instructs those being
studied to be objective in providing
information.
D) Reality is not fixed, but is rather a
construction of human minds.
10. Which is not a characteristic of traditional
scientific method?
A) Control over external factors.
B) Systematic measurement and observation
of natural phenomena.
C) Deductive reasoning.
D) Emphasis on a holistic view of a
phenomenon, studied in a rich context.
11. What is empiricism?
A) Making generalizations from specific
observations.
B) Deducing specific predictions from
generalizations.
C) Gathering evidence rooted in reality.
D) Verifying the assumptions on which the
study was based.
12. What is a hallmark of the scientific
method?
A) Infallible
B) Holistic
C) Systematic
D) Flexible
13.
Which of the following limits the power of
the scientific method to answer questions
about human life?
A) The necessity of departing from traditional
beliefs.
B) The difficulty of accurately measuring
complex human traits.
C) The inability to control potential biases.
D) The shortage of theories about human
behavior.
14. What is a criticism of the scientific
method?
A) Deductive
B) Deterministic
C) Empirical
D) Reductionist
15. What is involved in naturalistic qualitative
research?
A) Involves deductive processes
B) Takes places in the field.
C) Focuses on the idiosyncrasies of those
being studied.
D)
Attempts to control the research context to
better understand the phenomenon being
studied.
16.
A researcher wants to investigate the effect
of patients' body position on blood
pressure. This is an example of what type
of study?
A) Qualitative
B) Constructivist inquiry
C) Quantitative
D) Researcher preference of either
quantitative or qualitative
17.
A researcher is studying the effect of
massage on the alleviation of pain in
cancer patients. This is an example of
what type of study?
A) Descriptive
B) Exploratory
C) Applied
D) Basic
18.
A researcher wants to study the process by
which people make decisions about
seeking treatment for infertility. What is
the researcher's paradigmatic orientation?
A) Positivism
B) Determinism
C) Empiricism
D) Naturalism
19. What is the continuum of participation on
research?
A) Academics to practitioners
B) Consumers to producers
C) Journalists to educators
D) Mentors to novice nurses
20. What is the goal of explanatory research?
A)
Understand the underpinnings of natural
phenomena and to explain systematic
relationships among them.
B)
Begins with the phenomenon of interest,
but rather than simply observing and
describing it, exploratory research
investigates the full nature of the
phenomenon, the manner in which it is
manifested, and the other factors to which
it is related.
C) Study phenomena about which little is
known.
D) Make predictions and to control
phenomena based on research findings.
Answer Key
1. A
2. C
3. B
Chapter 2 Evidence-Based Nursing: Translating Research Evidence into Practice
1.
Research utilization begins with empirical
findings for consideration in practice
settings. Where does evidence-based
practice begin?
A) Integration of clinical judgments with
research evidence
B) A desire to abandon decisions based on
custom and authority opinion
C) A search for the best possible information
for addressing a clinical problem
D) A critique of existing practices
2. What is indirect research utilization?
A) Involves changes in nurses' thinking
B) Involves the direct use of findings in
giving patient care
C) Involves use of findings to persuade others
D) Involves changes in patient thinking
toward nurses
3.
The student nurse is constructing a
presentation on evidence-based practice.
Which statement should be included in the
introduction about evidence-based
practice?
A) Conscientious integration of current best
evidence with clinical expertise
B) Utilization of nursing preferences in
making clinical decisions
C) Theoretical problem-solving strategy
D) Emphasis on decision making based on
custom
4.
Evidence-based practice typically involves
weighing various types of evidence in an
effort to determine best evidence. Most
evidence hierarchies put which systematic
review at the pinnacle?
A) Randomized controlled trials
B) Program evaluations
C) Clinical practice guidelines
D) Meta-analyses of multiple clinical trials
5.
The terms research utilization and
evidence-based practice are sometimes
used synonymously. The two concepts are
distinct. Where does research utilization
start?
A) Uses findings of a study that are related to
the previous research of the topic.
B) Emphasis is on translating historical
knowledge into real-world applications.
C)
Use of a set of studies in a practical
application unrelated to the original
research.
D) Critique of existing practical applications
unrelated to historical research.
6.
Which activity will limit researchers to
improve the prospect for evidence-based
practice and research utilization?
A) Conducting high-quality, methodologically
sound studies
B) Disseminating results to a broad audience
C) Providing periodical available supports
during regular work hours
D
)
Discussing the clinical implications of
their study results in their research reports
7. Which is not a major barrier to evidence
-
based practice in nursing?
A)
The fact that many clinical nurses are not
academically prepared to critically
evaluat
e nursing research studies
B)
The support of organizations that reward
nurses who engage in research utilization
efforts
C) The low number of replication of nursing
studies that show promise for utilization
D) The absence of quality, clinically relevant
nursing studies
8.
There are several resources to support
evidence
-based practice. What are care
bundles?
A) Rigorous integrations of research evidence
from multiple studies of a topic
B)
Evidence
-based clinical practice
guidelines that combine a synthesis and
appraisal of research evidence
C) Set of interventions to treat or prevent a
cluster of symptoms
D) Meta
-analysis or quantitative methods that
integrate findings statistically
9.
There are several resources to support
evidence-based practice. What is
metasynthesis?
A) Qualitative, narrative approach to
integration of a study
B) Quantitative method that integrate findings
statistically
C) Synthesis and appraisal of research
evidence with specific recommendations
D) Set of interventions to treat or prevent a
cluster of symptoms
10.
Several models of evidence-based practice
have been developed. Which model
focuses on the use of research from the
perspective of individual clinicians?
A) ARCC Model
B) Clinical Nurse Scholar Model
C) Iowa Model
D) Stetler Model
11.
A RN is putting research into practice.
What step of the process is involved with
the validity of study findings?
A) Framing an answerable clinical question
B) Searching for relevant research evidence
C) Appraising the evidence
D) Integrating evidence with other factors
12.
A student nurse is trying to find out what
a
mixed methods synthesis is. What is a
mixed methods synthesis?
A) Integrate and synthesize both quantitative
and qualitative evidence.
B
) Integrate quantitative evidence.
C) Integrate and synthesize qualitative
evidence.
D) Integrate qualitative evidence.
13.
Systematic reviews are published in
professional journals. Which database
contains thousands of systematic reviews
related to healthcare interventions?
A) Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews
B) Campbell Collaboration
C) Agency for Healthcare Research and
Quality
D) Joanna Briggs Institute
14.
Clinical practice guidelines distill a large
body of evidence into a manageable form.
Which describes clinical practice
guidelines?
A) Give general recommendations for
evidence
-based decision making.
B) Address all of the issues relevant to a
clinical decision.
C) Guide clinical practice when there are a
number of published articles.
D) Completed by researchers.
15.
Which reference is a comprehensive
reference resource that provides an array
of clinical information for nurses,
including evidence
-based care sheets, best
practice guidelines, and point
-of-care drug
information?
A) Clinical Evidence
B) Evidence
-based Nursing
C) Worldviews on Evidence Based Nursing
D) Nursing Reference Center
16.
Evidence
-based practice writers
distinguish between background and
foreground questions. What is a
background question?
A) Based on current best research evidence.
B) Specific, detailed questions about a
clinical problem.
C) General, foundational questions about a
clinical issue.
D) Questions located on websites.
17.
Fineout
-Overholt and Johnston
recommended a 5
-component scheme for
formulating evidence
-based practice
questions, using the acronym PICOT as
a
guide. Which two components are not
always needed in this model?
A)
P and C
B) I and O
C) C and
T
D) P and O
18.
A nurse is putting research into practice.
What is the first step that should be
considered in the process?
A) Framing an answerable clinical question
B) Searching for relevant research evidence
C) Appraising and synthesizing the evidence
D) Integrating evidence with other factors
19. Which occurs with individual evidencebased practice efforts?
A) Tend to be less formalized approach than
organizational evidence-based practice.
B) Must take organizational factors into
account.
C) Must take interpersonal factors into
account.
D) Triggers for an individual project include
pressing clinical problems.
20.
Appraisal of Guidelines Research and
Evaluation (AGREE) Instrument consists
of ratings of quality on what type of scale?
A) 4-point scale
B) 5-point scale
C) 6-point scale
D) 7-point scale
Answer Key
1. C
2. A
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